How to use recovery CDs and load original factory software on my Toshiba laptop?
How to use recovery CDs and load original software on my Toshiba laptop?
Most laptops are supplied with a recovery CD (sometimes more then one) or a recovery DVD disk. For some newer models you have to create a set of recovery CDs yourself by running special software preinstalled on your laptop. The recovery disk will help you to re-image the laptop hard drive back to original factory defaults. If you don’t have recovery CDs, then try to contact the manufacturer and buy it from them. A regular Toshiba recovery disk includes an operating system, some default software and all device drivers. When you re-image the drive, all personal data and all software you installed after you bought the laptop will be ERASED. Do not forget to back up all important files before you re-image the hard drive. You can transfer important files to another computer over the network, transfer them to an external hard drive or a USB flash drive, burn them on a CD, etc. It is very easy to re-image the drive. You have to insert the recovery media inside the optical drive and restart the laptop. Make sure to set the DVD/CD drive as a first boot device, so the laptop starts to boot from your recovery disk. After that just follow the wizard. For newer Toshiba laptops you can press F12 on startup to select the boot device. Re-imaging the hard drive takes in general 30-60 minutes.
August 25th, 2010 at 10:43 am
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August 1st, 2010 at 5:16 am
HI
AND ITS NEW LAPTOPS .MY QUESTION IS IF I MAKE A RECOVERY WILL ALL MY DATA ON HDD GO AND HOW TO AVOID THE ERASE OF MY DATA THOUGH I NEED TO INSTAL A NEW OS AND I DONT HAVE THE DRIVERS BUT I HAVE MY 4 RECOVERY CD…………THNX
I GOT A TOSHIBA SATELITE A660-141 AND IAM NEW TO THOSHIBA
July 20th, 2010 at 6:24 am
Hi
I have a freinds Toshiba Satellite L355-/S7900. The issue is that her sister-in-law borrowed the laptop. Long story short when she got the laptop back it turns on and ask “Enter Current Password:” well when she tries to enter her old password no luck. The borrower has not been to be contacted. I purchased a recovery disk off Ebay. I have selected F12 with disk in, and I can see the disk being accessed but the enter password screen comes up. Do you have any advice?
Thank you
Charles
July 4th, 2010 at 11:53 am
I have a Toshiba Satellite L355D-S7825. When i use the recovery media to recover to factory image, it fails at 1% and i get the Error: 10-FC12-0570. Any idea on what this means?
July 3rd, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I have a Toshiba satellite l500, I tried the recovery and i followed the instruction on the screen but its keeps on restarting. what to do?
June 21st, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Thanks for all the help guys. I removed my 2GB Kingston Memory and replaced it with the original 1GB memory SODIMM. The error:
10-FC12-0241 has been eliminated that the Recovery in the Toshiba Recovery Wizard was successful.
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This is the advice from comment 39 by P Panl. Thanks P! Your advice was verified to work on a NB305 Toshiba laptop.
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
JAAn,
1. Insert the recovery disc into the CD/DVD drive.
2. Restart the laptop and press the F12 key as soon as Toshiba logo appears on the screen.
3. Select CD/DVD drive from the boot device menu and press Enter.
4. Follow instructions on the screen.
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:58 pm
hi, i have toshiba laptop but i upgrat hard drive so i want to install vista from recovery cd but it couldn,t do it plz help me thanks……………………
April 25th, 2010 at 6:40 am
When your laptop reboots, ensure that you have selected the “F12″ key. This will take you to the “In with Tommorow Toshiba” screen and the cursor at the bottom will be highlighted on one of the bootable options. After you have made your selection with the directional keys with the arrows, select “Enter” and off you go.
April 19th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
i got the same error. Thanks for the suggestion about removing additional ram.I pulled out a 2 gig chip put in the old half gig and BAM!!!!I got my laptop back running.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Hi,
I have Toshiba satellite 5105-S607, the computer was restarting every time I TRIED TO use the recovcery cd
I keep on following the instructions on the screen but it keeps on restarting….What am I suppose to do?
April 4th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Hi,
I have Satellite L500, the computer was restarting every time I went on it so tried doing the recovery but error 10-fc12-0241 comes up and cant use my laptop!
What am I suppose to do? The recovery disk aint doing no work..